Hand-bag



('No Model.)

s. RBITZEN-BAUM.

HAND BAG;

NOQ 600,889.

Patented Mar.22,'-1898.

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i ArEN'r SELMAR REITZENBAUM, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOJ. WALTER DOUGLASS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAN D-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,889, dated March22, 1898..

Application filed August 21, 1897. Serial No. 648,989. (No model.)Patented in England October 6, 1896, No. 22,138.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SELMAR REITZENBAUM, a subject of the Emperor ofGermany, residing at Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Bags, (for which I haveobtained Letters Patent of Great Britain, No. 22,138, dated October 6,1896,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a hand-bag or satchel adapted to beconverted by folding into varying sizes, and in such connection itrelates particularly to the construction and arrangement of such a bagor satchel.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a bag or satchel ofsimple construction which may readily and quickly be converted oradjusted in size to meet requirements; and to attain this object myinvention consists of a bag formed of leather, cloth, or other flexiblematerial suitably secured to a hinged frame, the bottom of thebag in itsextended position being provided with a stiffening bar or brace, theframe and the bag material having coacting fastening devices, of whichthose secured to the bag material are arranged in the side opposite tothose on the frame and at varying distances from the top or frame of thebag, all arranged so that the material of the bag may when folded onceor twice be secured to the frame to form successive smaller sizes ofbag.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood fromthe following description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, forming part hereof, and in which- Figure 1 is a frontelevational view, partly broken away, of a bag embodying the mainfeatures of my invention and illustrating the bag in its most extendedcondition. Fig. 2 is a rear elevational view of the bag, showing thesame folded to substantially one-half the length shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a rear elevational view of the bag reduced to one-third the length ofFig. 1, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective View illustrating indetail the construction and arrangement of the coacting fasteningdevices of the frame and bag material.

Referring to the drawings, or represents the bag material, which is ofleather, cloth, or other flexible material, having at its upper end thehinged frame I) and at its lower end the distending-bar d. The bag is bypreference provided with the side wings a a, which project beyond thesides of the frame and the ends of the bar 01, as indicated in Fig. 1,which wings are adapted to be inwardly folded, as indicated by dottedlines in Fig. 1, so as to form a bag the width of which corresponds tothe length of frame I) and bar d.

On one side of the frame b are secured the buttons or clasps e, and onthe opposite side of the bag are secured the fastening-rings f f and gg, the latter of which are secured, preferably, to the bottom of thebag, while the former, f f, are secured to the bag material.

above the bottom, preferably one-third of the length of the bag.

In operation, if the bag is extended to its full length and width, asshown in Fig. 1, the wings a a are first folded inward, the bar 01serving to facilitate the operation. If now, as shown in Fig. 2, thebottom rings 9 g are placed on the buttons or clasps e, the bag will beapproximately half as long as it was originally. -If the size shown inFig. 3 is desired, the bag is folded three times to bring the rings ffinto engagement with the clasps or buttons e e. No matter what lengththe bag assumes its interior is not further decreased by infoldings ofthe bag, since the folded portions always rest on the outside of oneside of the bag and are not crowded or placed in the interior of thebag.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Ahand-bag, consisting of a hinged frame, a bag material securedthereto, a distending device in one part of said material, coactingfastening devices connected with said frame and material, of which thoseon said bag material are arranged on the side opposite to 5 2.Ahand-bag, consisting ofahinged frame, flexible bag material securedthereto, a distending bar secured to the bottom of the maopposite tothose on which the devices of the 1 frame are located and also atvarying dis- 1 tances from the top of said frame, whereby 10 saidmaterial may be folded and secured to said frame to decrease the size ofsaid bag, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

SELMAR REITZENBAUM.

Witnesses:

W. HAUPT, HENRY HASPER.

